Energy News

Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practioners and this Friday was no different.

An annual rite of spring in Seattle - the arrival of the first planeload of Copper River salmon from Alaska - is scheduled Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport.

The mild weather has meant people haven't used as much electricity as officials anticipated.

A plan by the state's largest power company to upgrade a major portion of New Jersey's power grid would reduce storm-induced blackouts by 39 percent and save customers from hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, according to the utility.

Eighty years ago, the stroke of a pen transformed Tennessee and much of the southern United States forever.

"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" ... or here. Go see Alan Jackson preform 7:30 tonight at the St.

ATLANTA, GA, May 15, 2013 -- Crane Materials International , the world's largest, performance-driven manufacturer of sustainable sheet piling solutions, provided a 1,300 linear foot flood wall at the recently completed Sacramento Municipal Utility District's East Campus-Operations Center.

** U.S.-insurer New York Life is in exclusive negotiations with Yuanta Financial to sell its Taiwan assets, two sources with close knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Friday.

Westar CEO Mark Ruelle detailed the plans Thursday morning at the company's annual shareholders meeting at the Capitol Plaza Hotel.

Something stunk in Florham Park Thursday, but residents should not fear the smelly air.

Xcel Energy is proposing two natural gas-fired power plants in southeastern North Dakota to help meet electricity needs during times of peak demand in the upper Midwest in coming years.

As the region looks for more effective ways to integrate wind and other renewable energy sources, the Bonneville Power Administration and its customers have agreed to settle the portion of BPA's rate case that defines charges for balancing services, or generation inputs, that maintain a constant balance of the energy produced and energy consumed.

The Media and Learning Center at De Anza College recently won a citation for energy performance from the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter, and PG&E. The award was presented April 25 and seeks to honor projects that demonstrate how deep reductions in energy use are essential to good design in the 21st century.

The Sierra Club has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to order the Public Service Commission to again reconsider its approval of the coal-fired power plant Mississippi Power Co.

A nuclear plant near North Carolina's capital city was shut down after operators reviewing ultrasonic tests from last year found the results showed tiny marks of corrosion and cracking that need repair, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

Work on a section of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline near Jasper. Some sections of the route are already twinned.

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The man who achieved Internet fame as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker when he struck a driver accused of attempting to run over a Pacific Gas & Electric work in February, is wanted on suspicion of murdering an attorney in New Jersey.

The $89 million rate increase was approved Wednesday by state regulators. It's less than a $110 million rate increase the Jackson-based utility self-implemented in March.

The Soyo LNG tanker, which was expected to take on one of Angola's first cargoes for export, entered the facility on April 16 but sailed out of the port again two days after the fire.